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“We signed their death warrants by compromising that information”

LT. COL. RALPH PETERS: I have got to address not only disgraceful, but murderous release of details of this raid. You just don’t do it. The special operators are furious because the administration rolled them on the bin Laden raid. Why do I say murderous? Not only because detailing which units are involved, tactics, how we did it, not only does that endanger our fighters, if we go in on a future raid, but the administration didn’t think about the hostages still being held. They released the data, the information that we got intelligence from released European hostages. Do you think the Islamic state is going to release more hostages? We signed their death warrants by compromising that information. You can tell that I’m angry. I’m a former intelligence guy. You do not compromise a vital, above top secret national security information for five minutes of political gain. It’s un-American.

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The special operators are furious because the administration rolled them on the bin Laden raid.

I had a football coach who had an expression for the kind of preening and back-slapping the Obama administration does after these raids: “All they want to do is win and walk with the girls.” In Obama’s case, he wants to skip with the boys, but you get the picture.

SEAL team 6 was killed literally days after killing OBM. Do you think that was a coincidence??? If you do, then you may get mad and think the democrats care about giving away intel. Thinking people know better.

I thought he was talking about Biden spilling the details of the Navy SEALs who got Bin Laden, and then the old Chinook loaded with SEALs was ‘co-incidentally’ shot down shortly thereafter, killing the most special ops members in one attack in the teams’s history.

Puh-Leeeze take the Conspiracy Theories over to DU or Kos or Loose Change….. SURE, SoCom/State Department/DoD/OSD “arranged” for SEAL Team 6 to be “taken out”… yeah the hundreds of folks involved just kept their mouths shut…. just like all the people who wired the WTC Buildings or participated in the Shoot down of airliner off Long Island did….

Listen to yourselves, if you saw equivalent tripe @ any of the sites I mentioned you’d dismiss those people as cranks… look in the mirror… No Conspiracy…. it’s WAR, Sh!te happens….

The CH-47 is the work horse lift help in Afghanistan, there aren’t that many MH-47′s, it was just like the bird that flew a SEAL unit into Robert’s Ridge… was that a “Conspiracy”, too?

There are many things to complain about in this Administration without deciding to go all Democratic Underground….

I don’t think that anyone ‘arranged’ for SEAL team 6 to get shot down, but I do think that Biden blabbing about them being the ones to get bin Laden put a giant target on their backs. The administration owed it to them to keep their involvement a secret. The SEALs were betrayed by their own Vice President. I don’t believe the conspiracy theories (I am sure that some of the Afghan forces were in league with AQ, but I don’t believe any Americans were involved.), however, even without a conspiracy, this is still one of the most shameful episodes in American history.

Likewise, Obama blabbing about the intel will get the rest of the IS hostages killed.

It’s common knowledge that the wapo was about to break the story on its own, without any help from washington, so I don’t get the outrage here. They wanted to release their version of events before the papers broke the story, because if it’s out anyway, why wouldn’t you.

And you guys seriously have issues with the bin laden raid info being released? That was a major victory. That’d be like not telling anyone how hiroshima blew up. Something that major *always* comes out in the news.

That was done in territory we controlled and was not about direct operational activities so much as where we found him. But please feel free to keep playing.
This defense coming from someone who detests both Bush’s. Particularly their wars.

Astonerii, who cares WHERE the operation occurred, that’s daft… as much as I may not agree with Triple s/he has a point. I knew the JTF number that found Saddam. I “knew” it was composed of ODA, & other Spec Ops personnel, IIRC….I “knew” he was tracked via genealogical software adapted by domestic police forces & the military, to create “wiring diagrams” of gangs/militias/the Tikriti clan…I “knew” all that post-Saddam’s capture..

I “know” a lot, or I think I do, about Operation Eagle Claw & what happened @ Desert One… Beckwith released a book, soon after the operation…..

Let’s hit Obama on what he did wrong, not everything he did… in this case, it seems to me, the problem wasn’t talking about getting Bin Laden or talking about the raid to retrieve Foley…. it is only the fact that they revealed the sources of their intelligence… The Administration could simply have said, “We tried to rescue Foley a la the Son Tay Raid. And like Son Tay the raid failed because our intelligence was wrong about Foley’s location. It’s not like we have a lot of assets in ISIS.”. It shows you tried, it doesn’t reveal sources & methods… knowing that SEAL Team 6 or JTF 182 performed the mission says nothing to ISIS.

And you guys seriously have issues with the bin laden raid info being released? That was a major victory. That’d be like not telling anyone how hiroshima blew up. Something that major *always* comes out in the news.

triple on August 25, 2014 at 9:52 AM

Nobody was saying not to release the news bin Laden had been killed, but the administration released a ton of information about who did it and how they did it. They painted a target on Seal Team 6′s backs.